Description

LAURENCE POUNTNEY LANE
TQ 3280 NE
(west side)
16/436A
Retaining wall and
railings with overthrows,
gate and letter boxes to
Pountney Churchyard

GV II

Churchyard retaining wall and railings with overthrows, gate, and letter boxes.
Late C18, minor alterations. Pink and yellow brick wall with Portland stone
coping; wrought-iron railings, overthrows and iron gate. The walls and railings
are in 2 sections, linked by an overthrow, each section forming 2 sides of a
rectangle (along Laurence Pountney Lane and returning to flank alleyway between
them) and returning a short distance along the 3rd side. Each has entrance with
overthrow to the shorter, 3rd side, and the northern section has gate to
entrance and double letter box next to it. Walls: height varies with slope of
ground between approx 0.5m and 2m, and has flat coping; some patching. Railings
have square bars with spike finials, urn finials to standards, straight and
curved brackets. Overthrows have decorative, scrollwork and lamp holders. Gate
is plain. The double letter box is of 1870s type, having royal cipher flanking
crown at top, above aperture, and door with collecting plate at base. These
railings surrounded the 2 old churchyards that once belonged to the Church of
St Laurence, Pountney Hill, destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. In
1779 an entry in the Churchwardens' accounts records the resolution, "that
liberty be given to lower the walls of the 2 churchyards on St Laurence Pountney
Hill, and to fence the same with a coping of stone and iron railings'.
(Wilson, The History of the Parish of St Laurence Pountney, p175). The existing
railings are almost certainly the result of that resolution.

Listing NGR: TQ3273780802

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082401

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)